“Kalynovyi gay” of Independence
At the initiative of President Viktor Yushchenko 2007 the year commemorating the victims of Holodomor was declared in Ukraine. The terrible tragedy of our people is reflected in creativity of many artists and genetic memory of atrocities awakens in new generations of Ukrainians and sounds in new pieces.
Planted by Viktor Yushchenko and his associates on the slopes of the Dnieper eleven thousand bushes of Viburnum from different parts of our country have not left indifferent poetess Antoninu Ostrolutsk and sixteen-year-old Kyiv composer Vitaly Kyjnytsya, they created Song-Requiem “Kalynovyi Hai”. The presentation of the work was held on November 8, 2007 in Kyiv City Teacher’s house on the creative evening of V.
